AIRA Delay
So what happened to the rolling out of the automated case reporting? We saw all sorts of notices that certain districts were going paperless on 05 January and now it's all up in the air again. Who's got the scoop?
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:06 AM
85 Comments:
When Seiser does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.
Shortshanks was saving them for the "olympics". In 7 yrs, they'd prolly cost $30.000.00 more. ;-)
None of this is going to work unless they A)buy enough computers and B)keep them working. Both of which I can guarentee the city and dept will fail at.
Question: with the automated case reporting, are the responding officers suppose to remove the pdt from the car and take it say - upstairs or in the basement or up to the 14th floor of a ghetto bldg to do a case report? I can see major major problems with this already.
Don't know what happened, but a 2 minute battery report turns into at least 45 minutes of messing around with the pdt. What a joke.
Off topic: Why was the media so quiet about Ald. Munoz father sentenced to 4 years in jail and deportation for selling fake id's? It was headline news the day it went down, but not anymore since he was found guilty?
Dont know about AIRA but S.T. article states that CPS spent $67,000 on Cuppuccino machines under Arnie Duncans watch....
And know hes on a Persidential Cabinet with a whopping Bachelors degree...Of course the Times DOESNT point out that this happened under Arnies watch as to not embarass OBAMA
How about those coppers who hired the notoriois lawyer who takes handounts from the city in the form of settlements when she sues coppers frequently.
Of course if anyone knows MR. P.O.inbedwith the enemy will agree it was karma catching up with him.
I failed the AIRA TRAINING! O well...
some problem with putting it on the PDTs i think
The stroke didn't pay the contractors again.
yeah, paperless. don't forget to print 3 coppies for the bosses who are too lazy to look it up.
Just remember per Ron Huberman and I quote "this department will be paperless by 2001"
Some glitches with the software, haven't been able to use them in the cars for a week.
yeah its FUBAR.
I absolutely love all this new technology! Like the fatfuck said in animal house,(this is great). Presently, when I get the 3rd fl. burglary I drag my fatass upstairs, pull out a folded up case report and I'm done in 15-20 minutes. Now the options are endless! I figure it will take a min. of an hour. Then I'll get the burglar alarm that use to take 5 min w/a 14 p/n. Now, I guess we are to pull out that money generating ANOV book. There is another 30 minutes of quality down time. Can I get my lunch squad?
not sure..but in 024 when they installed the new software on the pdts it really screwed them up..always out of range and now and the iclear never works, im not complaining just stating fact i know alot of other districts dont have new pdts with iclear...a decent amount of our cars have no pdts and a few even have old ones. someone may have realized how long it will take to write a case report when you are leaning over to the middle of the car to try and type out a case report with lots of info that is not even needed
Another typical CPD Clusterfuck..
Pssst; I don't a fuck anymore!
Certain features make sense, like the automatic transfer of data from the case to the arrest report but the A.I.R.A system seems to be slow and tedious compared to the Clear system. Reports have to be resubmitted several times before Supervisor's approval and it seems to be time consuming.....Like everything new, it might take a while for all the kinks to be addressed but it seems that efficiency is the primary goal....On the other hand, no cars, no PDTs and no rifles....Well I can't have everything
A shoplifter use to take me and my sexy partner 40 min to process. Now it takes... Who gives a fuck?
There was a notice indicating that until further notice AIRA was not to be used on the PDTs but can still be used in the stations.
I here mixed reviews about AIRA and I am not even sure what it is! What is AIRA and is it worth the wait???
No matter what order, directive, notice or teletype (oops fax ) comes from ‘downtown’ pay no attention to the start date. Wait four days for the rescind order, directive, notice or teletype to come out! I really don’t think they know what they are doing. Good thing we work for a ‘learn as you go’ company. Oh no we don’t . . . shit! Be real, real careful out there.
i did the BS training on the computer....now if it's ever used, my dumbass will have to be re-trained because i forgot it lol
A glitch in the software will require code changes to be made MANUALLY on each and every single PDT. Automated case reporting still works in the station though (thank Allah). Cost to fix this mess? $100+ per PDT.
OT---dont forget about the john knight gathering at the stadium club on western ave this fri. i didnt know john, but i was disappointed to only see 20 replies to the post about john. yes, i realize that over half the P/O's on the job now wernt on yet 10 yrs ago when he was killed.
"so we 'fixed' the glitch." - Bob, Office Space
Dont know about AIRA but S.T. article states that CPS spent $67,000 on Cuppuccino machines under Arnie Duncans watch....
And know hes on a Persidential Cabinet with a whopping Bachelors degree...Of course the Times DOESNT point out that this happened under Arnies watch as to not embarass OBAMA
A WHOPPING BACHELORS DEGREE? WHAT, DO YOU WANT HIM TO GET ONE OF THOSE BS MASTERS DEGREES FROM JERRY "LEWIS" COLLEGE, OR CALUMET "CLOWN" COLLEGE, WOULD THAT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER?
THEY CAN'T EVEN GET THE GPS STRAIGHT. EVERYTIME I COME BACK FROM MY RDO'S, HAVE TO CALL R MAN BECAUSES CAR IS DEAD DUE TO POOR WIRING....NICE
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Speaking of embarassing, anyone know who the Female Lieutenant is who lives in 022 and has a company car
Same for 017 CO. He was following an Ambulance that had their emergency lights activated the other day on Foster Ave with his lights and siren going to avoid traffic. But dont take a potty break at home if you live in the district.
I-CASE, the name used several years ago was also supposed to interface with the ISP reporting system and the systems of almost all the PDs in the state. Allegedly was going to roll out in February of 2007 but ran into snags and was not heard of since then.
Automated case reporting still works in the station though
thank Allah
Thank who?? Were doomed!
I know "never say never" but in this case, AIRA will never work citywide in the cars. How many districts still have the old car computers, if they have any at all.
Something as simple as our fax machine never works.
Just remember we lead the planet in cutting edge technology
Automated case reporting? You mean doing police reports on a computer like much of the rest of the country has been doing for MANY YEARS?
I found many departments doing case reports on computer 15 years ago! Here Chicago is, still stumbling along, trying to figure out if this computer craze will stick around.
I work a beat car with a junk obsolete computer still running Windows 98! No batteries in it either! Thrown out in the garbage can (NiCads) long ago.
My computer must be hot wired to the car, no batteries.
The Illinois State Police do accident reports in their car very quickly. They type in a DL number or a plate number and the other fields are populated from the datebase. Here in Chicago we struggle with ball point pen and carbon copies. No joke.
And this Jan 1 we started using a brand new Illinois Traffic Crash report, still with carbon paper but a new report, new fields, still done in ink.
The company that makes the software to do the Illinois Traffic Crash Report GIVES IT AWAY TO ILLINOIS' CITIES FOR FREE!!!!!
That is FREE as in NO COST to a police department. The likely reason we don't use it yet is our computer system is so fucked.
I saw the company at a booth at a police union convention last summer. That's where I learned they give it to police departments FOR FREE. That's for consistency state wide. So why doesn't Chicago have it yet? Probably because they won't give Chicago free computers also.
Anyone get carbines in the districts yet? We have racks in the station. They don't fit the carbines but they are racks. No racks in cars either. Racks are probably hard to find, probably need to do a study to determine the right one. As soon as some alderman's cousin gets the concession on selling rifle racks that is.
Anonymous said...
I absolutely love all this new technology! Like the fatfuck said in animal house,(this is great). Presently, when I get the 3rd fl. burglary I drag my fatass upstairs, pull out a folded up case report and I'm done in 15-20 minutes. Now the options are endless! I figure it will take a min. of an hour. Then I'll get the burglar alarm that use to take 5 min w/a 14 p/n. Now, I guess we are to pull out that money generating ANOV book. There is another 30 minutes of quality down time. Can I get my lunch squad?
1/08/2009 02:29:00 AM
By golly I think you've got it! It's called effective time management. And when in doubt, call for a Sgt. That's good for another half hour at least.
Gotta go and check the fluids in my squad car per General Order.
Seiser, that 88 Chevy Celebrity your driving is awesome! Rumors that it's tricked out, bullet proof glass, rocket launcher, mini bagel toaster (in glove box)... True?
P.S. the guys in 025 really miss your "assist the off duty PO" crack pipe arrests, when you worked your $12 an hour (per check w/taxes withheld) side gig @ McD's on Cicero.
When you coming back??? And bring that Big Head partner of yours, that guy got jokes!
We're in the same boat on the CFD side.
Now we've got a 2nd computer (the first sat for 10 years unused)
Half of the forms do not work. Unable to sign on.
So.....Attendance forms, overtime, etc are done by hand with CARBON PAPER for duplicates.
The only "working computers" are the ones the ambulances use for their reports. Wanna know why???.....REVENUE
They use them for billing.
I just saw SEISER swimmimg at OAK ST BEACH!!!
With the AIRA taking place of the majority of case reports, general offense, vice, hospitalization, missing, etc., and the feature that the info can automatically be sent to an arrest report, then why not just combine the two so that there is one report. Why have the long winded case report and then the now long winded arrest report. Just combine the two!!! They both have all the same info on them anyways. That would save time for sure. (If it worked, but it wouldn't)
Like any other major new system that gets rolled out there are bugs in it.
But usually the creators, the computer programers, of the system are on hand during that time and can correct them as they are found.
But guess what, To save money for ( fill in the blank ) Shortshanks fired them. So now we have this system with a major protion missing.
But, we will get the ( fill in the blank ).
OFF Topic: Absolute Chaos in the the districts last night switching over to the 10 & 9 hour shifts. No Cars, No PDT's, Pool cars with no PDT's or cages. WTF...
It is all bullshit. Came on in 81 and left last year. There was more paperwork when I left then there was in 81. A lot of the computer work is very unnecessary except for useless statistics. They lie about the statistics anyhow, so what is the point>
AIRA is being replaced in a couple years and victims still want a paper copy of the VIN. Paperless would be nice but they would ask you to make 15 copies that you are paperless to send to 15 people who then copy it to 10 more people. Last person who gets it throws it away.
Oh and you gotta love the Dicks that ask you to print a copy off of Chris and fax it to them. Uhm, guys, you have Chris in your office and can pull it up yourselves.
Talked with a tech once that the reason a lot of pdt's go out of range and the red donut on the top right hand corner of the screen light up is because the newer pdt's that they order don't work well with older pdt mounts. So if you have a new car with a new pdt and then your car goes down for repair etc. and you take out your pdt and place it on a pool car with an older mount, you'll see that it will not work. Check it out for yourselves and see. The trick is finding out which pdt goes with what mount. If a copper downs a car on days, pulls out the pdt and puts it in a pool car or some times in another car that's not being used because the pool car is a piece of shit, then 3rd watch comes in and grabs the pool car but it doesn't have a pdt. Now that person is looking for a pdt and grabs one from the radio room or another car. Then it's a complete mess. It just goes on and on.
In addition to AIRA being unnecessarily difficult to navigate, it has developed a nice habit of losing information or even losing report altogether. Is there any reason that we can't simply scan a general offense report onto a computer using a program such as Acrobat, simply fill in the boxes, and hit print? Works just fine for the complaints, why do we have to deal with the aggravation of AIRA?
Question: with the automated case reporting, are the responding officers suppose to remove the pdt from the car and take it say - upstairs or in the basement or up to the 14th floor of a ghetto bldg to do a case report? I can see major major problems with this already.
1/08/2009 12:34:00 AM
Hey douche, you save it on your car computer and then re-longin in the office.
AIRA is a horrible program. When it first came out there were so many complaints that they took it down and were supposed to make it better. Nothing was done to improve it and they put it back out there. It's not working right on the PDTs and that's what it was designed for. Using it on the PDT's has been put on hold because of problems AGAIN.
015 been using aria for about a month. boy does it suck. its all a big joke. can't use it in the car and in the station it crashes.......the brass could'nt give it a thumbs down becouse their thumbs were up their asses....whats next guys attach plows and salters to the suvs where getting. what not a bad idea
I have not had a working computer in my squad for months.
I have one of the computer shop guys in my beat and I chatted with him during a parking complaint recently.
He tells me that the "docking station" in the car is the rub. There is no way yet discovered to make a mounting system that allows for the constant removal of the computers without damaging either the computer or the docking station.
SO, the predictions of constant failure and maintenance headaches is spot on.
In 1996, I was 'train the trainer' for PDT use on the streets. My crew of KMA veterans told me not to worry, that the promise of the paperless department not only would not happen before THEY retired, it would not happen before > I < retired.
They were right. Again. I'm almost out the door now and it still hasn't happened. We're killing more trees than ever and we're barely any closer to the paperless system than we were twelve years ago.
Pitiful. (But Daley'$ plow$ came down my $nowle$$ Street twice last night.)
SCC, Perhaps you can start a "Technology Fiction" label! I found this article when researching AIRA on the Internet. I don't know what everyone is bitching about since the article says "Huberman uses the patrol car’s touch-screen notebook (one of 2,000 outfitted in Chicago Police cars) to run Veronica’s address." Seems there should be plenty of PDT's to go around whaahahahaha!!!!
February 15, 2004 — CIO — Chicago’s West side, the Shakespeare District, North Campbell Avenue, three blocks from Division, Wednesday night, November 19. Unmarked police cruiser unit 8i responds to a 9:06 p.m. dispatch. Violation of protection order.
The cruiser pulls up to a two-story brick house. Several women stand watching on the sidewalk and neighboring stoops. Several men are walking on the other side of the street, and two are hanging out in front of a store, also watching.
One of the women, Veronica, tells Sgt. Greg Hoffman that her estranged husband, ordered by the court to keep his distance, tried to approach her. He was wearing a hat for disguise. "He never wears a hat," Veronica tells Hoffman. He took off in a truck with friends, she says, pointing out one of her husband’s associates who stayed behind, a tall man wearing red sweats. Another patrol car pulls up, and officers round up the men across the street, including the man in red. The men stand, spread-eagled against a stockade fence, detained by Hoffman and Assistant Deputy Superintendent Ron Huberman.
After the cops pat them down and start asking them about Veronica’s husband, Huberman uses the patrol car’s touch-screen notebook (one of 2,000 outfitted in Chicago Police cars) to run Veronica’s address. He touches "send," and less than five seconds later, four incident reports dating back to early 2003, mined from the department’s relational database, appear on screen. Domestic battery. Two cases of violating a protection order. A suspiciously parked car. Veronica’s abusive husband doesn’t seem to know how to stay away. He also doesn’t know that tonight’s incident will join 8.5 million others in the CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting) system, the Chicago Police Department’s unique enterprise wide relational database.
http://www.cio.com/article/32107/Chicago_Police_Department_Uses_
IT_to_Fight_Crime_Wins_Grand_CIO_
Enterprise_Value_Award_
I found this on another website collaborationproject.org - "In 2001 CPD partnered with the Oracle Corporation to create the Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis system (CLEAR) which was formally introduced after a 10 month development process costing $40 million." If data systems can put this crap together in 10 months why does it take 10yrs to take care of all the GLITCHES??? Nice partnership $40 million for 10 months!
http://www.collaborationproject.org/display/case/Chicago+Police+
Department%27s+CLEAR+system
A shoplifter use to take me and my sexy partner 40 min to process. Now it takes... Who gives a fuck?
1/08/2009 04:15:00 AM
I'll process your sexy partner in about 40 min.'s
we work for idiots !
When Seiser flexes his biceps you can hear the atmosphere crack from the pressure.
"Pssst; I don't a fuck anymore!"
1/08/2009 03:13:00 AM
Can someone our Italian friend a Viagra? Someone...?
The paperless police department was supposed to have been here several years ago. The city must
have renewed a new paper contract with the Daley clan. We now have 10 times as much paper floating around and every asshole boss needs a paper copy of everthing.
that shit is all fucked up.... it takes for ever to do a case report--- especially if u have multiple offenders/victims. and the shit does NOT transfer over to the arrest report like it is suppose to
We still have the old PDTs in our dist. No idea when we will get the "new" ones so this AIRA thing in the PDTs is not an issue for us. Also some of our guys are still walking around with the brick radios. Thanks for all the great equipment.
Hey media, why dont you look into how unprepared CPD is due to lack of funds and poor equipment. They keep feeding you that bs line about how technologically advanced our dept. is but in reality we are far behind all other major cities.
God help us if anything ever happens in this city.
Less paper all right! I ain't gonna do any paper! Fuck them!
What takes a few minutes is going to take hours on these shitty government surplus issued PDT's!
The city let go of most of the people at the help desk. Now if you have a computer related problem ranging from an inventory glitch to prisoner processing and everything in between, we have to call Unisys. The problem with that is that they are in Texas. They issue a ticket number for the problem and it does not get fixed. Computers are going to go down and they are going to stay down for long periods of time
"....a shoplifter used to take 40 minutes for me and my sexy partner to process...."
Yes, I remember those days and I still miss you.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Can we fix the clear application on the PDT's please???
I work different cars every day and have only had clear work ONCE on the PDT.
Oh and you gotta love the Dicks that ask you to print a copy off of Chris and fax it to them. Uhm, guys, you have Chris in your office and can pull it up yourselves.
**That's right. Tell them NO
"If data systems can put this crap together in 10 months why does it take 10yrs to take care of all the GLITCHES??? Nice partnership $40 million for 10 months!
http://www.collaborationproject.org/display/case/Chicago+Police+
Department%27s+CLEAR+system
1/08/2009 12:58:00 PM"
You answered your own question.
I work a beat car with a junk obsolete computer still running Windows 98! No batteries in it either! Thrown out in the garbage can (NiCads) long ago.
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T.P. (021) who you kiddin bro? You're working the desk and commander's whim inside. You aint in a car? You got cushy job.
""THEY CAN'T EVEN GET THE GPS STRAIGHT. EVERYTIME I COME BACK FROM MY RDO'S, HAVE TO CALL R MAN BECAUSES CAR IS DEAD DUE TO POOR WIRING....NICE""
1/08/2009 08:19:00 AM
Dude, who do you blow? Your car just sits when you are on your RDO's and not only that, but the PDT wasn't stolen by another beat? WTF???
"....I'll process your sexy partner in about 40 minutes...."
Promises. Promises.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
I-CASE was going to be the BEST we would get. Meaning that not all would like it, but it was going to be light years ahead of the CHRIS system. I "tested" it and was impressed. It was not perfect, but nothing CPD does ever is. It was way better than HUBERMAN'S baby, AIRA. That baby should have been aborted. I-CASE was killed by the CPD when they wanted to control the development even though the state was putting up the money for development. Thanks Jonathan Lewin!
So everyonce and a blue moon, the powers that be want to push the only "new" technology the CPD has: AIRA. HUBERMAN created a unit for the sole purpose of training CPD to use AIRA, problem was that even the coppers in that unit knew it was a turd. The CPD will forever be in the dark ages. We will never be ahead of the learning curve. we throw away money and stroke bosses egos. The USA could put a man on the moon. The CPD can't keep a man in beat car.
Hell, the damn copy machine has been down for a week. What makes anyone think this will work in 2009?
Hey douche, you save it on your car computer and then re-longin in the office.........
holy fuck,a douche callin another douche a douche.DAAAAAAAAMN
With all these case reports and criminal case records being accessible over the air, has anyone really thought out the issue of network security??
What is to keep some geeky teenager or criminal from hacking into our criminal records system and stealing the information? Or changing it?
Or worse: Screwing up the payroll system!!
Anonymous said...
Seiser, that 88 Chevy Celebrity your driving is awesome! Rumors that it's tricked out, bullet proof glass, rocket launcher, mini bagel toaster (in glove box)... True?
P.S. the guys in 025 really miss your "assist the off duty PO" crack pipe arrests, when you worked your $12 an hour (per check w/taxes withheld) side gig @ McD's on Cicero.
When you coming back??? And bring that Big Head partner of yours, that guy got jokes!
1/08/2009 09:56:00 AM
Good grief, leave the guy alone already- perhaps seek professional help. He's been in 18 for well over a year...And his partner is one of the nicest guys around.
When Seiser smiles. he becomes the brightest star in the galaxy
Hey 12:51
You failed AIRA training??? The bums that sleep on the floor in their own piss in 007 couldve passed that training. Goes to show you how the city will hire anyone
Question: with the automated case reporting, are the responding officers suppose to remove the pdt from the car and take it say - upstairs or in the basement or up to the 14th floor of a ghetto bldg to do a case report? I can see major major problems with this already.
1/08/2009 12:34:00 AM
Hey douche, you save it on your car computer and then re-longin in the office.
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Hey douche, maybe the 1st poster means your hands are going to be preoccupied holding a computer when it should be free to grab your weapon. And douches like you are the ones who will be holding the computer with your gun hand which could be the difference of life and death.
When Seiser does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.
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I know it's so wrong to encourage this, and I don't know the guy...
but it's so funny!
I don't know where you come up with this stuff!
Hey douche, maybe the 1st poster means your hands are going to be preoccupied holding a computer when it should be free to grab your weapon. And douches like you are the ones who will be holding the computer with your gun hand which could be the difference of life and death.
1/09/2009 03:29:00 AM
Man...I will jest smack him or her upside the head with my computer if I have to...........bet I knock dude out cold too.....
I was part of the AIRA pilot program in 015 and we did a test run of doing case reports on the PDT. a few years back.
My fellow officers I am here to tell you the facts of what happened in the pilot AIRA program years ago.
Doing case reports in the streets in a fast district is at best dangerous. The reason I say this is that while we were working on case reports on the PDT. There were many Officer safety issues with just having a PDT in your hand while going into peoples houses to do reports. Other issues such as in Domestics. We had our heads in the PDT while a distraught offender can come back to the scene and light everyone up before we can even hit the enter button!
We conveyed our findings to then Hubermann. He did NOT like our results of the tests and basically shit canned our findings!
AIRA is okay at best in the station to replace CHRIS which is outdated.
To do case reports in the field especially in the fast Westside and Southside Districts and we will be burying our own in short order!
You all have been warned and so were the bosses many moons ago!
From a former BAS - Information Services Division Member!
Hey, did every district get a box of new snazzy mouse pads complements of Unisys and the Data Systems Division??? We did. Your tax dollars at work....
And for a F*&*&ed up system, guess how many people work in unit 125???
I'll give you a clue- it's well over 100. Now, how many business do you suppose have a crew of over 100 in their IT department and can't get stuff to run????
Hey douche, maybe the 1st poster means your hands are going to be preoccupied holding a computer when it should be free to grab your weapon. And douches like you are the ones who will be holding the computer with your gun hand which could be the difference of life and death.
1/09/2009 03:29:00 AM
Man...I will jest smack him or her upside the head with my computer if I have to...........bet I knock dude out cold too.....
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BET YOU CAN RUN FASTER THAN A BULLET TOO! STUPID REMARK FROM A STUPID 2 YEAR WONDER SUPER COP.
Anonymous said...
Oh and you gotta love the Dicks that ask you to print a copy off of Chris and fax it to them. Uhm, guys, you have Chris in your office and can pull it up yourselves.
**That's right. Tell them NO
1/08/2009 07:17:00 PM
Unless something changed, here is the reason. Once a po types his original case report in chris, dets do not have access to it until it is approved by your supervisor, and until your review office processes it, and then the det's case management office processes it - which can take a few days. The department set up the chris system that way.
If the det is asking you for a copy of the report on the day the incident occurred, that is why.
Lewin is clueless. He brings in PO "project managers' who's only idea of project management is to say "the commander needs this..." He dumped all the civilians who did know what they were doing.
Has anyone tried calling the 4-DATA number for any computer help?
How long were you on hold?
How long did it take to relate your problem to the call taker?
How long did you wait for a solution to your problem?
My answers: 8:37 wait time
6:45 talk time
Total time on phone 15 minutes,22 seconds.
Solution: Still waiting. Hoping to get a phone call back tomorrow.....
I can guarantee you under the old system I would have had a call back with a proper answer in the 15 minutes time I spent on the phone; based on the type of question I asked.
Yea Dickie !!
For the Department, this is a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't.
If the Department does not roll out a new system, you see complaints like:
The Illinois State Police do accident reports in their car very quickly. They type in a DL number or a plate number and the other fields are populated from the datebase. Here in Chicago we struggle with ball point pen and carbon copies. No joke.
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The company that makes the software to do the Illinois Traffic Crash Report GIVES IT AWAY TO ILLINOIS' CITIES FOR FREE!!!!!
That is FREE as in NO COST to a police department. The likely reason we don't use it yet is our computer system is so fucked.
I saw the company at a booth at a police union convention last summer. That's where I learned they give it to police departments FOR FREE. That's for consistency state wide. So why doesn't Chicago have it yet? Probably because they won't give Chicago free computers also.
If the Department does roll out a new system, you see complaints like:
Don't know what happened, but a 2 minute battery report turns into at least 45 minutes of messing around with the pdt. What a joke.
For the record, the Department has been using the State's free Illinois Traffic Crash system called MCR. Call over to 001 desk some time and ask them about it. They have had it for almost a year now. Guess what the complaint is..."It takes longer to do than a paper crash report."
As for AIRA, what is it? It is an online incident reporting application.
A glitch in the software will require code changes to be made MANUALLY on each and every single PDT. Automated case reporting still works in the station though (thank Allah). Cost to fix this mess? $100+ per PDT.
This is way off. AIRA was halted because of problems getting all of the new systems to work together. What systems? The Motorola radio modem to talk with OEMC's PCAD system, Verizon's Cellular EVDO modem to give you access to CLEAR and Data Warehouse in the cars, automated citation (movers and parkers) writing, automated license plate readers, in-car cameras, and GPS. That is a lot to get working on a single PDT. Now throw on top of that the movies some people have put on them along with other things..it's amazing the PDT's haven't melted.
Given that, the good news is that the Department is very close to getting all of this to work.
I respect those that say that doing paper reports are faster than online, but anything you have been doing for years would be faster than something new. If you ask a new PO who has only done electronic Arrest Reports to do a paper one, he/she would probably say the online report is faster.
I know not everyone will agree with what I have said, but just asking everyone to keep an open mind.
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